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Timberwolf service items and industry standard spares are at least double the price from regular suppliers. I wanted a feed roller hydraulic motor a few years ago. TW dealers wanted £300+vat, the local hydraulics man got me one for £ 156.+vat same eaton-yale motor same splines, same bolt holes different price. The same with the bearings. a local company has them on the shelf as they are a stand size. I paid £1200 for a new engine, it was straight from a Kohler importer and bolted straight in place. Entec/Timberwolf just buy in lots of standard parts and assemble them, they would be daft not to. Just that most owners think they have to buy the parts from TW or not at all.
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Why not get a smaller tipping trailer and keep the LDV too. From the experience of locals here , trailers get stolen and ropey tippers do not.
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You are better to fell them in the full length. Uphill preferably. Dont worry about smashing the top 20 foot off as its usually to knotty for anything other than pulp/firewood.
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Felling and extracting that sort of thing is just my kind of job. I'd even drive the county there. This WRC was the same kind of dimensions.
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you mean Whiskyvullin. I did my forestry mid year placement at Lochgilphead. One of the forwarder drivers for Loch Awe FD ( 15 years ago mind) lived there. He drove one of the 1840's the largest forwarders in the country then. The cab was immaculate , he was known as Mr Sheen due to his love of using polish in the cab.
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Just like contractors there are some gooduns , some baduns, and some are a total and utter waste of the public taxes .
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where in Argyll? the newer houses look like Mcleoud's houses.
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You need to make continual return visits to make an assessment . Any snapshot cannot tell if condition is moving forward or backwards.
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The comment was as I read it to show that some workers can achieve outstanding results with very little. So if they adopted newer practices how much more could they achieve, they could outshine most of us I expect.
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Showing your age there ( under 35)
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Older vehicles require more servicing and spares than new so in theory I'm helping the parts makers and garages by using an old motor.
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I know there are plenty of firms using techniques that should have been extint by now.
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Windsor Park - Managing Decaying Habitat
Log-ologist replied to raafbeard's topic in Training & education
Just a few, as I had multiple flat battery probs with my camera. -
I purchased my Entec25PH direct from the factory. That was in the days when you could see them being built before towing them away. The company did a handover for the machine , running through the working and maintainance. I still remember that I was told to change the 2 small bearings every year, and the large one will last a long time and that they rarely need replacing. The small bearings cost about £ 15 a pair from my local bearing dealer. ( same brand as the originals)
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If its agricultural you just need a provisional. Though when you run on red diesel you should not carry a load but put it in a trailer. You may also be in trouble if you travel over 20mph on public highways. Dont forget your L plates. No motorway driving in tractors and you need amber beacons on main roads. The law is very grey in this area due to the multipurpose construction of the vehicle. Get something in writing from the DVLA. Then you can work to that.
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Multi tip cutters can be reground, my contact does them for about 8 quid a pop.
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Windsor Park - Managing Decaying Habitat
Log-ologist replied to raafbeard's topic in Training & education
I went up with Chris, very worthwhile day out. I had heard of Ted and seen some vids he has posted on the ancient tree forum. He is the brilliant sort of person who will always ask more questions than he can answer. -
Forresters Fund For Children - Vardis Scam Warning
Log-ologist replied to bill's topic in Business Management
Be suspisious of any cold caller on behalf of any book, brochure, magazine, wallplanner etc. Never ever have anything to do from them. You have been warned. This week it was only 2 callers. One seemed to imply we had spoken before 3 months before, a standard tactic it seems. I corrected him and he appologised for the error and hung up, the second was insistent till i told him to F-off, then he gave up. Once one even threatend me with prosecution for swearing at him till I gave him the best an old woodsman can muster and his ears started bleeding. -
Look closely and I'm in the centre at the top of the stick.
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This was from pre-digi photo days. I have quite a few. This was the biggest Lawson Cypress I have ever seen. the stump was massive and a few feet from the wall of the cottage.
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Surely it would have been easier to dismantle and move the greenhouse ( not that the sun shines long enough up there to make a greenhouse worthwhile)
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Sorry to hear about your fall , hope you recover fully. (I'm glad I'm too old and fat to footlock. )
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What I saw was 20 years ago. It was simmilar to this ,http://cgi.ebay.com/CHAIN-SAW-ATTACHMENT-CHAINSAW-TOOL-WOOD-WORKING-PEELER_W0QQitemZ110346711282QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090204?IMSfp=TL090204171004r37876 but it had lots of chainsaw chain type cutters set in the revolving drum. It was lethal.
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When I first started doind inspections about 5 years ago i charged 90 quid now its near 45. I have a pan industry qualification not a nptc so I can inspect for construction , rescue, etc not just arb's and it was a lot less expensive than nptc.
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Saw your presentation yesterday at Windsor, interesting , many possibilities, but I'm not throwing away my rubber mallett just yet. Thanks.
